APPLE AND DATE CAKE

My Nana (Grandmother) kept a cookbook during WWII. In London from 1939 she had 3 growing Children to feed in public housing just North of central London.
http://wartimecookbook.wordpress.com/
This is her recipe

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Ingredients

1/2 lb cooking apples

1/4 lb stoned dates

3oz brown sugar

3oz butter

1/4 lb golden syrup

6 ozs flour

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

Preparation

Peel, quarter & core apples and cut into small pieces. put into pan with little of sugar and sufficient water to keep them from browning and cook until tender.
Mash and leave to cool.
Put butter in pan with the rest of the sugar, add syrup and let dissolve. Leave to cool.
Sift flour into basin, add ginger and cloves.
Beat eggs, add dissolved syrup and butter and whisk together. Add this to flour, then add apple puree and dates cut into small pieces. Beat for a few minutes, then turn into greased tin. Bake in moderate oven 1/2 hour

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